IX. Define the form and syntactical function of Participle I.

1. I felt suddenly small standing beside those immense walls of stone. 2. My father and I spent an hour or so taking our materials to that room. 3. He stood for a while holding my hands. 4. Being Evie she made our problems hers and in the midst of all her happiness she did not forget us. 5. I was very pensive considering it. 6. He listening to me almost like a child hanging on my words. 7. He leaned across the table twisting a bit of bread off a roll on his plate. 8. They are in love with each other and wish to marry. Yes, but there are difficulties being put in their way.

X. Translate the sentences into Ukrainian.

1.He thought the woman was satisfied with life as she had lived it, enjoying the pleasures and suffering the sorrows life brings. 2. They didn’t know many good families, of course, being the sort of class they were. 3. She spent a good deal of her time on clothes not ever being sure where true elegance lay. 4. Being an orphan at six, he was brought up by a distant relative. 5. Having admitted she loved him she was frightened. 6. Generally speaking, the problem is not so easy as it seems to be.

XI Translate what is given in brackets using an appropriate form of Participle I.

1. James hesitated for a moment (не розуміючи, що трапиться).

2. (Розповів все, що він знав) the witness left the box.

3. We stood on the bridge in the fog (очикуючи такси).

4. A new road will soon be built ( яка з’єднає завод з вокзалом).

5. (Узяв книгу с полиці) he sits down under the floor- lamp to read it.

6. (Повертаючись додому минулого вечору) he had a nasty accident.

7. I decided to go to bed (будучи дуже втомленою).

XII. Supply Pariciple I for the verb in brackets.

1. His smile showed a row of (flash) teeth.

2. (Call) the steward he ordered a tumbler of ice and a couple of glasses.

3. (Spend) a year at home she returned to Cobe with her husband.

4. He lay on his bed (smoke) a cigarette.

5. Suddenly there was a small (scrape) sound.

6. Gert walked into the kitchen and stood (face) Fieta.

7. (Leave) a nice sum of money by her parents she decided to leave her job.

8. It was an old woman (wear) glasses.

9. After that I started a small pensionnat out here (take in) rather old girls who wanted to study languages and other things.

XIII. Replace one of the homogeneous predicates by Participle I.

Model: The girls walked home and sang. - The girls walked home singing.

1. She looked at me smiled.

2. The children set and watch television.

3. The girl spoke and trembled.

4. The children ran about and shouted.

5. He turned over the pages of a book and looked at the pictures.

6. The man read a book and made notes from time to time.